A draught, in English, of a prospectus of a 'Bibliotheca Britannica, sive Scriptorum qui in Angliâ, Scotiâ, et Hiberniâ vel nati fuere vel munera aliqua obierunt ab ultimâ Antiquitate usque ad sæculum xvii. Notitia'

Title

A draught, in English, of a prospectus of a 'Bibliotheca Britannica, sive Scriptorum qui in Angliâ, Scotiâ, et Hiberniâ vel nati fuere vel munera aliqua obierunt ab ultimâ Antiquitate usque ad sæculum xvii. Notitia'

Shelfmark

MS. Tanner 469*

Summary

A draught, in English, of a prospectus of a 'Bibliotheca Britannica, sive Scriptorum qui in Angliâ, Scotiâ, et Hiberniâ vel nati fuere vel munera aliqua obierunt ab ultimâ Antiquitate usque ad sæculum xvii. Notitia' (about 1708?): followed (fol. 3) by a chronological list of the authors proposed to be included, and the first section of the work including all authors before the Roman occupation, with a historical preface to the section.

The first author is Samothes Gigas, son or grandson of Japhet (d. B.C. 2014). The connexion, in form, with the Bibliotheca Britannico-Hibernica (1748) is slight, but the volume is interesting as showing Tanner's first conception of the work, and as being perhaps the basis of chapter 1 of Wilkins's preface to the Bibliotheca.

(fols. 6-7 are torn)

Date

Written in about 1708-1730 (?) by T. Tanner

Language

English

Physical facet

On paper

Physical extent

22 Leaves